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Attention centered first on Dr. Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt...
More important than whether the reaction can be used as a test is the question of why it occurs at all. On this, Biochemist Akerfeldt shed some new light. What Akerfeldt's DPP reacts to is a copper-containing enzyme, ceruloplasmin, present in the blood. It had been assumed that there must be more of this enzyme in schizophrenic than in normal blood. Not so, said Akerfeldt: the reaction measures not the amount but the activity of ceruloplasmin, and this activity depends at least to some extent on the presence of a second substance which he has not identified...
...effort to stop the unscientific bickering that has raged for years over scientific evidence linking heavy cigarette smoking to lung cancer, four prestigious organizations* set up a seven-man study group. Chairman: the University of Wisconsin's Biochemist Frank M. Strong. Last week the group's findings were out. Big black headlines in the press notwithstanding, the report contained no new evidence, represented instead a careful appraisal of all the published (and some unpublished) data. Conclusions...
...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemist Price describes the ''immunological overlap'' among the B viruses, most of which are borne by mosquitoes or ticks. Most feared are Japanese B encephalitis, Russian spring-summer fever, St. Louis encephalitis and Murray Valley fever. *Closely related is dengue ("breakbone fever"), and also yellow fever, against which an effective vaccine has been available since...
...A.A.A.S. meeting, Biochemist Stanley L. Miller of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons told how he filled a glass container with the gases that were presumably present in the earth's primitive atmosphere. Then he shot electric sparks through them to simulate lightning. In a week he had an organic soup in which he identified nine amino acids, four of which are constituents of proteins found in living organisms. Dr. Miller concluded that nature's first chemical step toward life creation was rather surprisingly easy...